Retail logistics is unforgiving. Vantage 9 gives retail supply chain teams the visibility and exception management they need to run a tighter operation without replacing the systems that already work.
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Why Vantage 9
Retail supply chains are not simple. You are coordinating across DCs, stores, e-commerce fulfillment centers, vendors, and carriers simultaneously. Your systems were built to manage each of those functions individually. The gap, the one where most exceptions happen and most costs accumulate, is in the coordination between them.
Vantage 9 closes that gap. We connect your existing systems into a unified operational view, automate the cross-functional workflows that currently run on email and spreadsheets, and give every role in your organization the visibility they need to act before problems reach the customer.
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Where We Add Value
The Challenge
On-time delivery performance is hard to manage when carrier data, warehouse throughput, and inbound shipment status all live in separate systems. By the time an exception is visible, it is already a service failure.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 connects carrier, warehouse, and inbound data into a single operational view with real-time exception alerting. Your team sees emerging service risks before they become missed windows.
The Challenge
Protecting key customer SLAs across a large store or fulfillment network requires more coordination than most teams can manage manually. SLA breaches are often only discovered after the fact.
What Becomes Possible
Configurable SLA thresholds and automated exception routing ensure the right people are alerted to at-risk orders before windows close. Compliance data is logged automatically for every shipment.
The Challenge
Inbound vendor compliance is difficult to manage when shipment data, appointment scheduling, and receiving performance are tracked across multiple systems and communicated by email. Non-compliance goes undetected until it reaches the dock.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 connects vendor shipment data to your inbound schedule and receiving workflows, giving your DC teams advance visibility into what is arriving, when, and whether it meets compliance requirements — before the trailer backs in.
The Challenge
Managing consolidation networks across large vendor bases requires coordination that email, spreadsheets, and standalone TMS platforms cannot handle at scale. Load building is manual, slow, and expensive.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 automates load building and vendor coordination across your consolidation network, reducing direct load ratios and freight cost. A large national retailer saved more than $6 million in the first fiscal year after automating consolidation through Vantage 9.
The Challenge
Stockouts and overstock positions are expensive. They are also largely avoidable with accurate, real-time inventory visibility across your full network.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 unifies inventory data across your ERP, warehouse systems, and transportation feeds into a single network-wide view, so your planning team can act on inventory risk before it reaches the shelf.
The Challenge
Working capital tied up in excess inventory or slow-moving stock is a real cost that is often invisible to operations because inventory data is siloed across systems.
What Becomes Possible
With network-wide inventory visibility, your finance and operations teams can right-size stock levels across locations, freeing up working capital without creating fulfillment risk.
The Challenge
Reverse logistics is one of the most manual, least visible parts of retail supply chain operations. Returns create asset recovery opportunities that most operations cannot capture at scale.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 brings visibility to reverse logistics flows, connecting return data to inventory and transportation so your team can recover more asset value and reduce waste across the returns network.
The Challenge
Sustainability goals require operational data that most retail logistics teams do not have: accurate tracking of empty miles, consolidation rates, and waste across the supply chain.
What Becomes Possible
Vantage 9 generates the consolidated operational data your sustainability reporting requires, connecting transportation efficiency, consolidation performance, and inventory waste into a single trackable view.
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Results
A large national retailer connected their consolidation network through Vantage 9, managing over 1,600 trailers with a 51% consolidation ratio and saving more than $6 million in transportation cost in the first year.
